To shorten a video clip, drag on the end or the beginning. You want to shorten each clip to a few seconds, so you don’t bore your viewers. Photoshop will open the timeline (Window>Timeline) and create a new video document using the settings from the video clip.ĭrag the playhead to move (scrub) to different parts of the video. To import a video into Photoshop, choose File>Open and select a video. For short clips, promos, ads, motion graphics, social media etc, Photoshop shines. For full-length editing, you should use Premiere Pro. I have also taught this at Adobe MAX and Photoshop World. I’ve been experimenting so much with this that I have written a book with Peachpit Press – Video in Photoshop, as well as 2 video courses at PhotoshopCAFE, Video in Photoshop (companion for the book) and Making Movies in Photoshop. This is for all versions of Photoshop CC and works on Photoshop CS6 Extended. To see what’s possible, watch this tutorial and see the written steps below. Photoshop is like a mini Premiere Pro and After Effects all in one. It supports animation and motion graphics and even 3D animation. You can stack layers, including graphics, text, photos and video. Such as, applying adjustment layers and filters to video (Even Camera RAW). MP4 just happens to support codecs that tend to be more compressed than some of the professional-level codecs supported by MOV.How to Edit Video in Photoshop: A short Mini Course to master video in Photoshop

Note: An MP4 file is not more compressed than an MOV file, it all has to do with the compressed video inside the container, not the container itself. In fact, if you’re on a mac you can just go in and change the file extension from MOV to MP4 and the video file will work perfectly. There’s a full list of video containers on Wikipedia. Popular video containers include MOV, AVI, FLV, and MP4. You can always tell what video container a given video file is by the extension at the end of the file. This means it’s a file format that houses the video, audio, closed captioning, and metadata that makes up an actual video. As a motion designer or video professional it’s essential that we understand what MP4 means. There’s a bit of misconception out there about what MP4 actually means. Once you’ve adjusted your settings to your liking hit the ‘Export’ button.

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